This study, utilizing 19 in-depth interviews, offers a systematic qualitative investigation of the
perceived impact of a newspaper's closure on community members' everyday lives and their …

We live in a boosterish era that exhorts us to play local and buy local. But what does it mean
to support local media? How should we define local media in the first place? Christopher Ali …

In this report, we analyse how local and regional newspapers in Europe are adapting to an
increasingly digital, mobile, and platform-dominated media environment. Local news …

Newspapers have faced extreme challenges in recent years due to declining circulation and
advertising revenue. This has resulted in newspaper closures, staff cuts, and dramatic …

Throughout history, news media have made commitments that “give rise to persistent
expectations” about public interest (Christians et al., 2009: 135; Nielsen, 2015). Indeed …

This study uses 48 in-depth interviews with managers, editors, and reporters at local and
regional newspapers and their parent companies in four countries (Finland, France …

News article revision histories provide clues to narrative and factual evolution in news
articles. To facilitate analysis of this evolution, we present the first publicly available dataset …

Local news organizations are adapting their newsroom routines to better respond to a digital
readership. These models feature different levels of online integration, but all aim to …

Misunderstanding News Audiences interrogates the prevailing myths around the impact of
the Internet and social media on news consumption and democracy. The book draws on a …

Using a survey of a sample of hyperlocal actors in Sweden (N= 178), this article examines
preconditions, motivations and sustainability for hyperlocal media operations, outside the …